Using a Cassandra .NET Core client driver to access Amazon Keyspaces programmatically

Download the Starfield certificate and save it to a local directory, taking note of the path. Following is an example using PowerShell.

$client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$client.DownloadFile("https://certs.secureserver.net/repository/sf-class2-root.crt","path_to_file\sf-class2-root.crt")

Install the CassandraCSharpDriver through nuget, using the nuget console.

PM> Install-Package CassandraCSharpDriver

The following example uses a .NET Core C# console project to connect to Amazon Keyspaces and run a query.

using Cassandra;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Security;
using System.Runtime.ConstrainedExecution;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CSharpKeyspacesExample
{
    class Program
    {
        public Program(){}

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            X509Certificate2Collection certCollection = new X509Certificate2Collection();
            X509Certificate2 amazoncert = new X509Certificate2(@"path_to_file\sf-class2-root.crt");
            var userName = "ServiceUserName";
            var pwd = "ServicePassword";
            certCollection.Add(amazoncert);
 
            var awsEndpoint =  "cassandra.us-east-2.amazonaws.com" ;  

            var cluster = Cluster.Builder()
                     .AddContactPoints(awsEndpoint)
                     .WithPort(9142)
                     .WithAuthProvider(new PlainTextAuthProvider(userName, pwd))
                     .WithSSL(new SSLOptions().SetCertificateCollection(certCollection))
                     .Build();

            var session = cluster.Connect();
            var rs = session.Execute("SELECT * FROM system_schema.tables;");
            foreach (var row in rs)
            {
                var name = row.GetValue<String>("keyspace_name");
                Console.WriteLine(name);
            }
        }
    }
}

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